Pakistan becomes No 1 country in the world for Facebook censorship
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has emerged as No 1 country in the world for censoring content on the Facebook.
According to an analysis of the report released by the company on Friday, Pakistan has made 2,203 requests to Facebook for content restriction, the highest in the world, during the first six months of 2018.
The country recorded more than 700 percent increase in such requests as compared to corresponding period of the last year. Pakistan has about 36 million Facebook users, according to the company data.
Talking to The News, digital rights activists attributed this rise in content restriction to growing wave of censorship on traditional and social media in Pakistan.
However Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Muhammad Naveed argued that government requests made to Facebook were related to issues like blasphemy, anti-state content and pornography.
